It may only be August but festival season is well and truly under way, and if the 2011 Southbound Festival line-up is anything to go by, we are in for one huge summer of music.

As ever, the festival is packed out with big names from across the alternative and indie rock spectrum including headliners Interpol, The National and even Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, but the festivals are also boasting a surprisingly diverse cast of artists, including plenty of dance acts like The Rapture, A-Trak, Casiokids, Peaches, Ladyhawke, Justice collaborators Jamaica and Klaxons who ITMers tipped to return earlier this week.

If that isn’t enough to get you excited, hip hop legends Public Enemy are returning to Australia as promised to bring in the New Year, with Chuck D and Flavor Flav set to perform their seminal album Fear Of A Black Planet in its entirety.

The local line is also chock full of goodness, with Sampology, Angus and Julia Stone and Tame Impala all making appearances across the New Year.

Falls Music and Arts Festival and Sunset Sounds 2010 line-up:

Interpol
Klaxons
The National
The Rapture
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
Public Enemy – performing ‘Fear of a Black Planet’
The Living End
Eskimo Joe
Angus & Julia Stone
Birds of Tokyo
Ladyhawke
Bliss n Eso
Tame Impala
Hot Hot Heat
Cold War Kids
Sleigh Bells
Peaches (DJ Extravaganza)
Paul Kelly
Children Collide
Ash Grunwald
The Soft Pack
The Beautiful Girls
The Morning Benders
The Cool Kids
Junip
Kitty Daisy & Lewis
Marina & The Diamonds
Muscles
Dan Sultan
The Middle East
Cloud Control
Yacht Club DJ’s
Washington
Boy & Bear
Sally Seltmann
Jonathan Boulet
The Bamboos
Tijuana Cartel
A-Trak
Tim & Jean
Edan the Dee-Jay
Baio (Vampire Weekend) DJ Set
Beardyman
The Cuban Brothers
Casiokids
Dan Kelly
Daara J
Jamaica
Charlie Parr
The Jezabels
Big Scary
Last Dinosaurs
Sampology
The Chevelles
Pond
The Chemist
Grace Woodroofe
The Novocaines
The Silents
Ghost Hotel
Split Seconds
Scotch of St James
Young Revelry
World’s End Press
Carus Thompson
The Growl
6’s & 7’s
Boom! Bap! Pow!

Southbound Festival takes over Sir Stewart Bovell Park, Busselton, WA from January 1st to January 3rd 2010.

Presale Registration is now open and closes at midnight on 26th August. We highly suggest that you register to secure your tickets and more importantly, your preferred ticket type once presale opens.